In post 4018, Almost50 wrote: In post 4011, mastina wrote:I'm a damn fucking good scum player, a fact you are all well too aware of.
Not when I have identified you as scum on D1 (and in the first half of the day mind you) in TM 2018.
Hey newsflash.
Team Mafia 2018 was literally a picture-perfect replication of my towngame.
Literally have never had a scumgame closer to replicating my towngame.
Heck, it's that game which is why I say "anything I could do, could come from scumastina".
Not any other game.
Not any prior game.
Not any future games past it.
If you look, I'm pretty sure that phrase was nonexistent prior to that game, but slowly came to use after it--because that game represented the ultimate proof of it; I broke almost every single one of my towntells in that game. The VERY few that weren't broken there did get broken in
later
scumgames, but the VAST majority of my towntells were broken that game.
And also newsflash.
Team Mafia 2018 represented me constantly.
Neverendingly.
Being behind.
I was over 100 pages behind when they lynched me there.
I never checked with my teammates; I was too busy trying to post in thread.
I barely knew anything that was going on there.
That was a highly unusual scumgame of mine--one which was for all intents and purposes, not a true scumgame.
I was always behind.
That wasn't a fake.
That wasn't me lying.
That wasn't me exaggerating.
I literally was reading slower than new pages were cropping up.
I
couldn't
play to my maximum effect, because there wasn't a way for me to do so.
And yet in spite of the D1 lynch on me.
In spite of the inability to keep up with the game.
It remains my best scumgame ever.
Because it was just
that
damn close a replica of my towngame.
I've never since managed to replicate it as well as I did that game.
The issue with that game was that the majority of the people in that game were scumreading my towngame.
The people intimately familiar with my towngame? Those were the people
townreading
me there. Ghostlin, for instance, was fooled through-and-through...not because he lacked experience with me, but because he
had
experience with me.
In that game, I only made that one mistake. That one mistake, which I do regret; I tailored my game to look like my towngame perfectly--which in a playerlist filled to the brim with players who knew me, would've worked...but in a playerlist which didn't know me, didn't work. I should've recognized that the players in there didn't know my towngame and then proceed to not give a fuck about it, to scum it up openly...which would've caused the people who knew me to scumread me, but they wouldn't have been able to do a damn thing about it because the majority would've townread me.
Like I said, I'm human, so I do make mistakes and that one tactical mistake did cost me the game. But I will never stop defending my play there for being what it was; a perfect recreation of my towngame at the time. I will also never stop to admit the fault of it, being that I didn't need my towngame that game; I needed my scumgame, fuck being scumread by the people who'd know it was such, so I suppose you can say.
I made a mistake that game which I know and acknowledge, but I did
I possibly could have,
given
the mistake I made. There was no way to make a more perfect recreation of my towngame, because that was my towngame through-and-through. It's just that I didn't need my towngame, and thinking I did was a tactical error on my part.
Or I suppose you could put it even more simply.
I executed the plan I made
absolutely perfectly
, I just made a mistake and executed the
wrong
plan, because I am human and thus, not perfect in my judgments. Thought I needed something I didn't, and thinking I needed it made me play in a way that hurt my chances of winning.
Specifically, mind you.
I can even tell you the thing that'd have saved me that game.
"Fuck reading the whole game, I'll catch up from here".
If I had done that?
I could've averted my lynch--but I didn't, because at that time, I'd never done that as town; I'd done it exclusively as scum, and I was terrified that in doing so I'd be scumclaiming. (My meta has since shifted thanks to me now using my phone a lot, so that I now almost always am more up to date than I used to be, because being behind was debilitating me as both alignments, so I decided to discard the silly restriction.)
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